For some time now, controversies about private user data records in the smart telephony segment have proliferated in ways that were not thought to be possible a few years ago. The accusations have infected Apple, Nokia, Google, RIM and Samsung, among others. However, in the case of the Korean multinational (first company in the sale of smartphones and second in mobile telephony), these accusations have just been refuted by sources from the firm itself.
Thus, according to a Korean news agency, Yonhap News, “Samsung has never recorded or used private data of its smartphone users; all Samsung applications do not have the ability to store private data ”, a statement signed by the Seoul-based company itself.
This clarification comes after a study by Dong-A Ilbo and the University of South Korea suggested that some of the native applications of the Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Galaxy S2 have the ability to track the information of the user who owns the terminal, with in order to store it and send it to the company, for purposes that the investigation has not finished clarifying.
Thus, even say they have detected applications that can access information from the contact list, calendar, SMS, location and photographs, but from the multinational Korean claim that the information contained in terminals has never been stored, and even less exploited, by the company.
This controversy coincides with another of similar characteristics that has come to permeate several manufacturers in one go, and even telephone operators. It is about the controversy caused by an alleged spy application of the Carrier IQ company, which theoretically would have the ability to track absolutely all the activity registered in a mobile terminal with a view to sharing the information with third parties.
Faced with this situation, manufacturers have been distancing themselves from the situation. Nokia and RIM were the first to wash their hands and deny that their terminals integrated this system. Later, Apple claimed that Carrier IQ software was almost eradicated from all its devices, and that in imminent updates it would disappear completely.
